Who Else Might Need What "For National Security" and What Should Belarus Do?
In this new reality, Minsk vitally needs to normalize relations with the EU, writes Mikalai Buhai.
Trump repeats that he needs Greenland "for national security".
How painfully this reminds one of Stalin's arguments regarding Finland, Hitler's — regarding Poland in 1939. And Putin's — regarding Ukraine.
Russia started this first. The contagion is spreading. If it continues like this, the world awaits wars, and wars, and wars. There are many eager to become "great again" as soon as the basic principle of not changing borders disappears.
In Russia itself, it has been repeatedly said that "for security" they need not only Donbas, but also all of Ukraine, and the Baltics, and Belarus.
The question of survival for our people is how to secure protection against this.
After the change in U.S. policy, Ukraine accelerated its rapprochement with the European Union and now relies on the help of European countries in its struggle to preserve independence. Even Canada, Australia, and Britain are rethinking their positions and alliances.
For Belarus, the situation is the most difficult, as its dependence on Russia has become absolute in recent years.
Meanwhile, for Minsk, in this situation, the same thing that happened in 2008 and 2014 under Makei is evident — to restore balance, to normalize, as much as possible, relations with the European Union, to have alternatives to Russia and Russian routes, and to minimize Russian propaganda within the country.
Is the current Lukashenka capable of this? If so, we will now see several simple steps from his side. If not, hard times await Belarus.
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Поздняк выдал опус о Тихановской, которая заталкивает Беларусь в Россию с помощью Германии !
Тогда, к кому, надо делать простые шаги ???
В Германии (Европе) враги, в России враги !
Но, залп Бугая и Поздняка очень синхронен, и показывает, что простые шаги по нормализации с Еропой, ради сохранения Беларуси, - снятие старых санкции с скотного двора лукашенко и не введение новых санкции на скотный двор лукашенко, но, какие, простые шаги должен сделать скотный двор лукашенко ???, об этом, ни Поздняк, ни Бугай не пишут заразы !